In the context of the urgent need to restore a measure of autonomy in
the management of the national economy, three major features of the pr
ocess of so-called globalisation deserve particular attention: the sev
ere pressure on the role of the nation-state from the operations of tr
anslational forces, the emergence of a virtually independent global re
gime of international finance and the new international regimes in the
vital areas of information, technology and knowledge.